problems configuring linksys wireless card

[twashing]

I cannot load or configure my linksys wireless card. I've taken all the obvious steps and read a lot of documentation, but I've reached my breaking point. How do you load the wireless drivers? How do you configure the card with the wireless tools?...

Wireless Card: Linksys Instant Wireless 32-bit PCI card (model WMP11, Intersil PrismII chipset)
driver: linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre9
wirelss tools: wireless_tools.26

System uname: 2.4.20-xfs-r2 i686


1. The driver and wireless tools for the card download and compile OK (using emerge).

2. Loading the driver as per (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.usage.html#loading), does not work.

* "modprobe -C /etc/modules.conf eth2" doesn't load the module. "lsmod" does not list the module and "ifconfig (eth1 | eth2) fails. Here's the entry in modules.conf ==>
alias eth1 p80211
alias eth2 prism2_pci

* "modprobe -C /etc/modules.conf wlan0" doesn't load the module. "lsmod" does not list the module and "ifconfig wlan0" fails. Here's the entry in modules.conf ==>
alias wlan0 prism2_pci


Am I understanding kernel module handling correctly? I know the driver was installed as a module because the p80211.o and prism2_pci.o object files are time-stamped to my compile time.

[lduperval]

Did you try this?

L

[twashing]

I can now use my wireless card. But the instructions that charlieg gave did not help getting the wirelss modules loaded.

I ended up using gentoo's simpler "genkernel" installation. The only thing I'm having trouble with now is pcmcia driver - it is not getting loaded. I need this if I want to to use "card services".

When I try to do a manual insmod of "ds"
==> I'm told the "Operation is not permitted"

When I try to do a manual insmod of "i82365" (pcmcia module)
==> I'm told "No such device"

Are there any I/O or IRQ parameters that these modules need?


--tim